On July 24, the Seventh Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd. issued an obituary. Comrade Lu Jianxun, a member of the Communist Party of China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, former director of the Seventh Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Corporation, and Party Secretary, died in Beijing at 18:31 on July 23, 2026, at the age of 97.

On July 24, the Seventh Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd. issued an obituary. Comrade Lu Jianxun, a member of the Communist Party of China, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, former director of the Seventh Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Corporation, and Party Secretary, died in Beijing at 18:31 on July 23, 2026, at the age of 97.